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Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. The veteran American Civil Rights leader and long serving congressman, john lewis, has died at the age of 80. An officer for Londons Metropolitan Police has been suspended and another placed on restricted duties after a video appeared to show one of them kneeling on a mans neck. Local authorities in england can use new powers from today to deal with coronavirus outbreaks in their area with the ability to shut down specific premises, close off outdoor areas and cancel events. President trump says he wont force americans to wear face masks in public to con...

People given credit notes for cancelled Package Holidays due to the covid 19 pandemic, are being reassured by the government that theyll still be honoured, even if firms go bust. The announcement covers breaks booked by uk agents both at home and overseas disrupted between march the tenth and the end of september this year. Our business correspondent, katie prescott, has more. Summer holidays, a distant dream for the hundreds of thousands of people who have seen them cancelled because of the pandemic. Such as jennifer and john who were supposed to travel to las vegas to marry injune. Like so m...

This comes after beijing imposed a new National Security law in hong kong. The uk has already offered residency rights to 3 million citizens of the island. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. Would the uk send someone back to this . A new law in hong kong has tightened chinas grip on the streets and brought fresh danger for those fighting for democracy. It is a very tense situation. Many people already flee hong kong, escape from hong kong, have sought political asylum overseas in many countries. For more than 30 years, if someone now in the uk was suspected of a crime, hong kong co...

Hello, this is bbc news with ben brown. The headlines the foreign secretary, dominic raab, accuses the Chinese Government of carrying out human rights abuses against its uighur population. It is deeply, deeply troubling, and the reports and the human aspect of it, from forced sterilization to the education camps are reminiscent of something we have not seen for a long, long time. Meanwhile, chinas ambassador to the uk tells the bbc the decision to drop huawei from its 56 networks is a bad move for the country. I think uk should have it own independent Foreign Policy, rather than to dance to th...

There were over 3,000 people here and it was dark and it was wet and it was too much of a risk to disband the rave last night. By lunchtime, the police had gathered enough support from other forces to close the rave down. The scene is that our officers are now walking across the site, supported by horses and dogs when necessary, to clear any remaining partygoers from the site and return it back to normality, so hopefully the people of bath can sleep soundly in their beds tonight. Tracy miller, bbc points west, swainswick. Looks beautiful there, notwithstanding the controversy over the rave. No...